Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-17
HAPPINESS.
Some Of the Mistakes We Make In
Overi00klng the Little Things - Life.

From the Philadelphia Record
We spread ourselves too much. when one re-
ects how big the world Is and how little Of It can
be monopolfzed TO any single creatures use, and,
further, how endless time IL and how small II each
mans portion, IL tends to clip the wings OF amoi-
ton what's the use OF having 80 much OF this
worlds goods that the care Of them Is . burdenf
Where IL the propricty Of wasting Life until we
become ready to die in getting ready TO iives
Too much Ia almost as great q WEAKNESS as too
little. Has the reader ever considered how much
comfort, how much goodness, how much felicity
10 stored away in little things? millionaire friend
has told the writer that when he was making $3.50
day, living with his wife In two rooms getting
ems, with no great care whether the market would
Coat to his back he was far happier than he was
after fortune began to load him down with favors.
His cares desires, pleasures and comforts were all
bonds and houses and lands and mines and manu-
factories cannot be compressed In bulk like bale
OF hay or cotton, 50 as to bring them within easy
OF the owner like the dangling chain OF portable
properties that the ghost OF Jacob Morley dragged
after him on his memorable visit TO koenezer
How happy the French peasantry are on their
little farms that have been divided and subdiv1ded
and divided again as the original owners were
blessed with Jeannettes and JeannOts TO follow In
their footsteps and till their small holdings The
proof OF their content is In the fact that the soil
Is made to respond to the demand made upon ft TO
Keep tho wolf from the door and to keep the happy
owners steadfast TO their country. They stay In
France, and they are the stay OF France. II
Americans should not spread themselves over so
much land they would be happier and richer We
would not have to send to France and Holland for
eggs II we had learned to care properly for small
things and to know their value It is true Of other
earth as Douglas Jerrold wrote OF Australian
with hoe and 1t would laugh harvest" but un.
less the tickling be thorough the laugh will be
There iS moro oo,,cocc c,oro ,ro-n,th ,noro
home-ke friendliness in small house with small
rooms than there Is In a big house with big rooms
1 Inc Dig mouse bewilders separates, sences, and
touch OF c0mpaniOnship. They have small Oppor-
tun1ty to cultivate the splendid virtues OF abnega-
ton and accommodation that flourish In narrow
quarters. In the days OF the blessed old stage
coach the passengers could not ride together and
be lolted against each other and tossed from side
10 SIDE without getting acquainted. People can
not live in little houses without knowing each
other and each others friends. They are the
breeding places OF friendship and the brooding
parlOr car or on steamboat and live In seclu-
sion In big house and get misanthropic, melan-
little houses says the Writer. They ' are the back
bone and mainstay, for example, OF Philadelphia.
Little women are the most bewitching. Since
the measurement OF Cleopatra's mummy-or the
Cleopatra mummy-has demonstrated that she was
only feet inches tall we now know, where we
CROPPED before something of the inexplcable en-
ticement that brought great Caesar to her feet.
Inc little woman is as saccharine is to other
sweets. Shakespeare, the arrow Of whose wit al
ways hit the mark probably OWNED the stature Of
the Egyptian beauty when he declared Of her
"Other women
Cloy tn appetite they feed; but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies"
little womans sunshine is satisfying not over
powering; 1t just snugly fills the heart and when
she storms the tempest is a prettyness. It is like
the dash OF rain and shadow that sometimes comes
In summer from single cloud when the wider
landscape baskS In the sunbeamS
There are a thousand other little things the
no hrt for dov
little fortunes, little farms, little houses little
newspapers and little women are enough.